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Las Vegas 2023 Recap, New Year's Eve Ideas, Interview with Casino Owner Derek Stevens and Plaza CEO Jonathan Jossel | Ep. 199 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Dayna Roselli: It's episode 199 of Vegas Revealed what a year it's been.
• 0:04
  Dayna Roselli: We wrap up 2023.
• 0:06
  Sean McAllister: Plus, we chat with Las Vegas casino owner Derek Stevens, who came out to support the fountain blue.
• 0:12
  Sean McAllister: He reveals why it's important to embrace all things Las Vegas.
• 0:17
  Derek Stevens: I've always been a supporter of any new investment, any new property to Vegas.
• 0:21
  Derek Stevens: I'm a big supporter, whether it's a casino like this or whether it's something like this fear.
• 0:27
  Sean McAllister: Plus some options for New Year's Eve that won't break the bank, and a shout out to our sponsors Hot Works, infrared Fitness Studios, more workout, less time, and the Vegas Near Me app.
• 0:40
  Sean McAllister: If it's fun to do or see, it is on Vegas Near Me.
• 0:44
  Dayna Roselli: Alright, let's do it and spin that wheel.
• 0:47
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome everyone to Vegas.
• 0:53
  Dayna Roselli: Revealed Episode 199.
• 0:55
  Dayna Roselli: It's Dayna Roselli and Sean McAllister, and we are winding down the year and getting ready for 2024.
• 1:04
  Sean McAllister: And this year has been jam-packed, I feel like, from start to finish, and then rounding it out with two brand new casino openings.
• 1:12
  Sean McAllister: That's wild.
• 1:14
  Sean McAllister: That's not happened in the time that I've been here.
• 1:17
  Dayna Roselli: No, and it included a lot of celebrations.
• 1:19
  Dayna Roselli: It included a lot of firsts.
• 1:21
  Dayna Roselli: It included a lot of iconic moments Like 2023 has been quite a year.
• 1:28
  Sean McAllister: It was quite the year, you're right.
• 1:30
  Dayna Roselli: Let's run down some of the things.
• 1:31
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, we were just chatting before the podcast, as we were getting ready, and I was like, remember this, remember that.
• 1:35
  Dayna Roselli: And you were like, oh, and don't forget that.
• 1:37
  Dayna Roselli: But we were just thinking back and we were thinking, gosh, it was the first ever Formula One race in Las Vegas.
• 1:42
  Dayna Roselli: Garth Brooks opened at the Coliseum.
• 1:46
  Dayna Roselli: We were at that show.
• 1:47
  Dayna Roselli: It was incredible.
• 1:48
  Dayna Roselli: Our Vegas Golden Knights took home the Stanley Cup.
• 1:51
  Dayna Roselli: What a year, what a week, what a day.
• 1:55
  Sean McAllister: Oh my gosh, all through the playoffs and being out there on Toshiba Plaza and then having the parade we were eating up at Ocean Prime on the patio as the parade was going by.
• 2:06
  Sean McAllister: That was pretty iconic.
• 2:10
  Sean McAllister: It was Having the Las Vegas Aces winning another WNBA championship.
• 2:16
  Sean McAllister: It was a big year for sports here.
• 2:19
  Dayna Roselli: It really was.
• 2:19
  Dayna Roselli: And then we found out this year that we're probably getting the Las Vegas A's, and so we have a lot to look forward to as well.
• 2:26
  Dayna Roselli: The sphere opened.
• 2:28
  Dayna Roselli: It's like whoa the whole world is looking at us because we are the only one with a sphere.
• 2:33
  Dayna Roselli: And the sphere is incredible and every day you will not open up your social media account without a video or a picture of the sphere.
• 2:41
  Dayna Roselli: Scrolling by right, Everyone's posting the outside of the sphere, the exosphere, going to YouTube, going to postcard from Earth.
• 2:48
  Dayna Roselli: People are flying into Las Vegas just to see the sphere and there's a sphere fan group on Facebook with hundreds of thousands of people.
• 2:56
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and then it's going to continue to spread once fish come in in the spring with their run of shows.
• 3:03
  Sean McAllister: So we're going to keep seeing the sphere absolutely everywhere.
• 3:09
  Sean McAllister: We had Durango Casino and Resort open up.
• 3:12
  Sean McAllister: Also, the Fountain Blue just opened up.
• 3:14
  Sean McAllister: You heard that in our episode 198, our last episode, and it's just been yeah.
• 3:23
  Dayna Roselli: Exciting.
• 3:24
  Dayna Roselli: Exciting, I mean, we're getting the Super Bowl in 2024, so we've been planning for the Super Bowl.
• 3:28
  Dayna Roselli: We're ramping up, having meetings, talking about events for the community, talking about what the Super Bowl is going to include.
• 3:36
  Dayna Roselli: We were able to interview and chat with Usher when he got the key to the city.
• 3:40
  Dayna Roselli: It's been, you know, even ramping up for that.
• 3:43
  Dayna Roselli: That's kind of part of 2023 too.
• 3:46
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 3:46
  Sean McAllister: I think we're going to slide right from 2023 into 2024 with the same velocity.
• 3:53
  Sean McAllister: I think we also went up to the northern part of Nevada, to Frey Ranch, and of course you know they're famous for making their Frey Ranch whiskey, and that was a great time too, my God that was so fun.
• 4:06
  Dayna Roselli: We really enjoyed just the short two days we were there, experiencing northern Nevada and being able to do the whiskey tastings and learning about Frey Ranch and touring the farm, and while we were there we actually bought tickets to see the Killers which we haven't seen in a couple years.
• 4:21
  Jonathan Jossel: Oh my God.
• 4:21
  Sean McAllister: I forgot about that, I know.
• 4:22
  Dayna Roselli: Remember that was so fun.
• 4:24
  Dayna Roselli: We were like there, like with our you know, reno, $7 beers and watching Brandon Flowers perform with you know, and then we were in the elevator with the guitar player.
• 4:35
  Dayna Roselli: I mean gosh, what an iconic two days.
• 4:37
  Dayna Roselli: That was right.
• 4:38
  Dayna Roselli: We were also inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame this year, and so big shout out to us.
• 4:47
  Dayna Roselli: That was a big moment for us.
• 4:49
  Dayna Roselli: We've both been in broadcasting for more than 20 years and it was a great honor.
• 4:53
  Dayna Roselli: Five of those years had to be in Nevada, and so we you know, we were nominated and inducted.
• 5:00
  Dayna Roselli: It was great.
• 5:01
  Sean McAllister: It was.
• 5:01
  Sean McAllister: It was a really big honor and kind of a personal feather in the cap yeah.
• 5:09
  Dayna Roselli: And then, to end the year, I met Keith Urban.
• 5:11
  Sean McAllister: Right, Right.
• 5:12
  Sean McAllister: I mean it's great to go into a new year with a new friend.
• 5:16
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly, I mean me and Keith are tight.
• 5:18
  Dayna Roselli: We talked about that last week.
• 5:20
  Dayna Roselli: That was a very and when I say meet, we meet people all the time.
• 5:24
  Dayna Roselli: When we interview, we do this and that, but like a nice little one-on-one conversation.
• 5:28
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, when there's like no pressure to do an interview or anything like that.
• 5:32
  Dayna Roselli: No, just yeah, I mean my.
• 5:33
  Dayna Roselli: You know, I got to touch this velvet jacket.
• 5:35
  Jonathan Jossel: I got to smell what cologne.
• 5:37
  Dayna Roselli: He was wearing all that.
• 5:38
  Dayna Roselli: It was a nice, up close and personal meeting.
• 5:40
  Dayna Roselli: So the list goes on and on, and it's just been an incredible year.
• 5:45
  Dayna Roselli: We love that all of you have joined us through the year for all these episodes.
• 5:49
  Dayna Roselli: Every single week we've been able to share all this stuff that we do, we love it.
• 5:54
  Dayna Roselli: We love Las Vegas and you know it's part of it and you help make it happen.
• 5:59
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and we want to thank some people who do make it possible for us to go out and do and see these things.
• 6:07
  Sean McAllister: You hear us talk about our subscribers and how important they are to keep the podcast going, and it really is true.
• 6:16
  Sean McAllister: So we do want to pause and have a big thank you to the subscribers who donate every single month.
• 6:24
  Sean McAllister: We have Tracy Jansen, kevin and Lindsay McClure, steve Tanberg, rob Lewis and Omar, who has donated in the past as well.
• 6:33
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and Rob Lewis donates twice a month because he wanted to up his amount and he could only do it in increments.
• 6:40
  Dayna Roselli: So I mean, just all of these people we appreciate you so much.
• 6:44
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, you know you just basically support us, you're not.
• 6:47
  Dayna Roselli: You know we aren't a subscriber based podcast where you know you need to subscribe to get our content.
• 6:53
  Dayna Roselli: It's just basically them saying, hey, keep doing what you're doing.
• 6:57
  Dayna Roselli: So we appreciate that.
• 6:58
  Dayna Roselli: We know giving up even an extra dollar a month is a lot for some people.
• 7:03
  Sean McAllister: So but we are kind of like the PBS of podcasting.
• 7:06
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 7:07
  Sean McAllister: You know how.
• 7:08
  Sean McAllister: There's the telephones every so often and they need your pledge of support.
• 7:13
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, we get pledges Right.
• 7:15
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• 7:17
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• 7:18
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• 7:22
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• 7:25
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• 7:28
  Jonathan Jossel: It does Really.
• 7:29
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• 7:30
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• 7:36
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• 7:39
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• 7:48
  Sean McAllister: All right.
• 7:48
  Sean McAllister: New Year's Eve is coming up, obviously, as we wind down 2023 and look ahead to the new year, and Las Vegas, consistently, year after year after year, is one of the top destinations for New Year's Eve revelers, and this year, I feel like the entertainment is a little bit different from what we've seen in years past.
• 8:10
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I feel like we have a lot of different headliners this New Year's Eve.
• 8:14
  Dayna Roselli: We have Post Malone performing at Fountain Blue, we have Christina Aguilera at Valterre, at the Venetian, demi Lovato at the Cosmopolitan, luke Bryan at Resorts World, and many more.
• 8:27
  Sean McAllister: And, by the way, just a note on Luke Bryan.
• 8:29
  Sean McAllister: He is wrapping up his residency over at Resorts World, I believe in the first week of January.
• 8:38
  Dayna Roselli: January 6th, because we're going to go to that show.
• 8:40
  Dayna Roselli: We're going to be there for his final show.
• 8:42
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's January 6th, which is a Saturday.
• 8:44
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 8:44
  Sean McAllister: So the clock is ticking on the availability to go and see Luke Bryan here in Las Vegas.
• 8:52
  Sean McAllister: So keep that in mind and bring your energy, because he's a ball of fun.
• 8:55
  Sean McAllister: Bring tons of energy and a cocktail.
• 8:59
  Dayna Roselli: But we do actually have a full list of things happening on our website, because there's too many to mention.
• 9:04
  Dayna Roselli: So go to vegas-revealedcom.
• 9:07
  Dayna Roselli: We just posted it.
• 9:08
  Dayna Roselli: It is up there, and in our tips coming up in a little bit, we picked two that we actually think are a pretty good bang for your buck.
• 9:14
  Dayna Roselli: So we'll have that coming up.
• 9:17
  Sean McAllister: And, of course, there has been a lot of talk since the opening of Fountain Blue about everything, everything, I mean.
• 9:24
  Sean McAllister: People are finally in there, they're posting about their experiences at the restaurants at all of the venues inside of Fountain Blue and we wanted to bring to you some of the conversations.
• 9:37
  Sean McAllister: That didn't make it into the episode last week, but they were great conversations and we really wanted to share them with you.
• 9:44
  Sean McAllister: So we thought that this week it would be a good chance for you to hear from Las Vegas casino owner Derek Stevens and his wife.
• 9:54
  Sean McAllister: They were at the grand opening.
• 9:56
  Sean McAllister: Derek owns Circa Las Vegas, the D the Golden Gate downtown in the Fremont district plus the downtown Las Vegas Event Center, and he was also with the Resorts World grand opening.
• 10:09
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 10:09
  Dayna Roselli: So when we saw him at the Fountain Blue, we remembered that we're like here's Derek again coming to support another casino.
• 10:14
  Dayna Roselli: This is really cool.
• 10:15
  Dayna Roselli: We've got to talk to him about this.
• 10:16
  Dayna Roselli: We also talked to the CEO of the Plaza Hotel and Casino, Jonathan Jocel.
• 10:20
  Dayna Roselli: He was there too.
• 10:21
  Dayna Roselli: Really, we talked to both of them to kind of get their take on why they enjoy supporting other casinos in town, why they think it's important.
• 10:29
  Dayna Roselli: So let's start with Derek.
• 10:31
  Dayna Roselli: Remember being at the Resorts World opening, and you guys were there too.
• 10:34
  Dayna Roselli: You always support other casinos.
• 10:35
  Dayna Roselli: I love that.
• 10:36
  Derek Stevens: Yeah, I mean, I think it's a long standing Vegas tradition.
• 10:39
  Derek Stevens: I think it's a good thing we're excited to hit the Blackjack tables or the Dice tables a little bit later.
• 10:44
  Derek Stevens: It works.
• 10:46
  Derek Stevens: Just excited to be here.
• 10:47
  Derek Stevens: This is such a really monumental day for Las Vegas.
• 10:50
  Derek Stevens: I'm so happy for Jeffrey Brett and their team.
• 10:53
  Derek Stevens: I'm so happy for Las Vegas as a whole.
• 10:55
  Derek Stevens: This is a monumental day.
• 10:58
  Derek Stevens: A resort of this size it's going to bring so many people to Las Vegas, so this is great.
• 11:06
  Sean McAllister: And listeners from out of town.
• 11:07
  Sean McAllister: They hear oh, there's a new casino opening in Las Vegas.
• 11:10
  Sean McAllister: Okay, but those of us who live here know what a big deal it is and what an undertaking it is.
• 11:17
  Sean McAllister: I mean, can you articulate, having gone through it yourself from the ground up downtown with Circo, what is involved in this that people don't really realize?
• 11:28
  Derek Stevens: I would tell you I had, like I was mentioning, with you people, I was getting a little taste of it when we opened three years ago.
• 11:33
  Derek Stevens: So I drove down Las Vegas Boulevard I think it was three days ago and I saw a frantic number of workers planting trees and pouring concrete and I thought, oh my God, I remember that three years ago, when the stress levels were just over the top, but they did it.
• 11:49
  Derek Stevens: I mean, this looks spectacular.
• 11:51
  Derek Stevens: They just nailed this.
• 11:52
  Derek Stevens: So it's just exciting to be a part of it.
• 11:55
  Dayna Roselli: And you are always along for the ride and you love it, right, I just go along, yeah, but I mean it is good to be supportive, you know, and we love seeing both of you together at things.
• 12:04
  Dayna Roselli: I mean it shows that you know it's a family town too.
• 12:07
  Dayna Roselli: Family stick together, we do, we do.
• 12:11
  Sean McAllister: What are you most looking forward to about Fountain Blue?
• 12:17
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know, I just I want to see inside.
• 12:19
  Dayna Roselli: I want to see everything.
• 12:20
  Dayna Roselli: He's gotten a little bit of a sneak peek.
• 12:23
  Dayna Roselli: I haven't, so I'm just taking everything in.
• 12:26
  Sean McAllister: So Nicole's playtime hasn't come yet.
• 12:28
  Derek Stevens: No, not yet not yet I'm excited about the new elements of design.
• 12:33
  Derek Stevens: You know we've never we've never seen a design like this before, so it's going to be breaking the mold, which I think is pretty exciting.
• 12:41
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I should say, I mean, no matter what, we want people to come to Las Vegas, right?
• 12:45
  Dayna Roselli: So something else opening and something else bringing more people in is only good for you, right?
• 12:50
  Dayna Roselli: Absolutely.
• 12:51
  Derek Stevens: I've always been a supporter of any new investment, any new property in Vegas, and I'm a big supporter, whether it's a casino like this or whether it's something like this fear.
• 13:01
  Derek Stevens: We just got to bring more people to Vegas.
• 13:04
  Derek Stevens: We're the city of entertainment, and more reasons to bring great visitors to Vegas are always good.
• 13:11
  Dayna Roselli: When there's casino openings and hotel openings, it's great to see other owners and operators out to support this.
• 13:17
  Dayna Roselli: Is something you believe in.
• 13:18
  Jonathan Jossel: Absolutely.
• 13:18
  Jonathan Jossel: We got to support it.
• 13:19
  Jonathan Jossel: It's great for the city and we all want to be here supporting it, and anything new for Vegas is going to be great, so we're looking forward to getting to check it out and what it's going to add to the community.
• 13:29
  Sean McAllister: And what do you think that Fountain Blue is going to bring to this end of the strip that eventually leads people downtown?
• 13:35
  Jonathan Jossel: Well, this took us five minutes to get here from downtown, which is very nice, nice to have on this end, and I think it's going to add a new flavor.
• 13:41
  Jonathan Jossel: Obviously, the Miami Connections huge and I got to walk around and check it out before I can really tell you about that, but I think it's going to add a lot and it's going to give people another reason to come here and visit.
• 13:51
  Dayna Roselli: You've just you know, this year you've opened a lot of new and cool things.
• 13:54
  Dayna Roselli: So I mean new stuff in Vegas brings people in right.
• 13:58
  Jonathan Jossel: Always brings people in, and you got to be patient, give it time to be successful and, yeah, it's a big undertaking.
• 14:02
  Jonathan Jossel: So full credit to these guys for pulling this off.
• 14:05
  Jonathan Jossel: 20 years later, it's great to see it come together.
• 14:08
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and it may seem obvious why they come out to support, but that isn't the case for every single property in town.
• 14:17
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, look at the little cat fight the wind and fountain blue hat on instagram, you know I was going to say.
• 14:22
  Sean McAllister: the casino industry is a very competitive industry.
• 14:26
  Sean McAllister: You know you have a pool of players and you know everyone's trying to get their attention and draw them into their property with with deals, with attractions, with promotion.
• 14:38
  Dayna Roselli: so you know it is, it's tough, but I do love seeing the camaraderie that's that's here in the community as well well, I think I was cool if they also pointed out, you know, the northern end of the strip is actually closer to downtown and, like john saying, it took him, you know, like five minutes to get down the road and there is a nice little link there.
• 14:58
  Dayna Roselli: You know, you popped to fountain blue, you popped to resort world and you're like, okay, let's hit downtown.
• 15:03
  Dayna Roselli: You know, go to circa or the plaza, hit fremont street.
• 15:06
  Dayna Roselli: So I mean, there is a little bit of a link there to.
• 15:08
  Dayna Roselli: So that's kind of nice for them and they're always so great and I love that they.
• 15:12
  Dayna Roselli: They love Las Vegas and I think that you know, obviously everyone that works here and is engrossed it wouldn't be here if they didn't.
• 15:20
  Dayna Roselli: But I don't know, I just kind of like how they really go all out all the time yeah, they really do, for their own properties and for Other peoples as well.
• 15:30
  Sean McAllister: I write let's do some tips.
• 15:31
  Sean McAllister: Dana, as you mentioned earlier, our tips this week are new year's eve related.
• 15:41
  Sean McAllister: These are some new year's eve events that we thought were pretty good deals, considering the numbers that we've seen Floating around for other new year's eve events.
• 15:50
  Sean McAllister: The first one is it flight club you.
• 15:53
  Sean McAllister: We've talked about this here on the podcast before.
• 15:57
  Sean McAllister: This is the social darts venue over at the grand canal shops at the venetian.
• 16:03
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and it's gorgeous in there and it's huge, and you know, if you don't know it's there, because sometimes you know there's so much going on here you walk by something like wait, what is that?
• 16:11
  Dayna Roselli: And actually just gonna Pedal back for a minute.
• 16:14
  Dayna Roselli: You actually brought your whole family when they were in town to the flight club and we didn't get a chance to talk about it because there was so much going on, but that was a great place to bring the fam to right.
• 16:24
  Sean McAllister: Oh my gosh, we had a blast.
• 16:27
  Sean McAllister: We went.
• 16:28
  Sean McAllister: We had some downtime in the afternoon before we were going to dinner, yeah, and we're like, oh, why not Pop over and play some darts?
• 16:38
  Sean McAllister: Like so something that everybody can do and it's just a good time.
• 16:43
  Sean McAllister: And what's Fun is that there's a camera that records, that records you throwing the darts, and it's very high tech.
• 16:52
  Sean McAllister: But when you win a game, it records your celebration and puts it up on this big screen.
• 16:59
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my god, I could just see your mom and sister laughing.
• 17:02
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, they probably thought it was so.
• 17:05
  Sean McAllister: And then they send you all of the little video clips that the little camera has recorded throughout your dark session.
• 17:12
  Sean McAllister: They email them to you after your session is done.
• 17:15
  Sean McAllister: That is so cool and the drinks are delicious.
• 17:18
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, they have a really good food selection to.
• 17:21
  Dayna Roselli: There's some windows that look out right toward the strip, to realize it's tripside there's like a carousel bar that has all these windows that look right out.
• 17:30
  Sean McAllister: It's a great venue.
• 17:31
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, we had a blast good, good, good food to.
• 17:34
  Dayna Roselli: And so when we saw this, we thought what?
• 17:37
  Dayna Roselli: What?
• 17:37
  Dayna Roselli: A hundred bucks, years, so.
• 17:40
  Dayna Roselli: So let's run, run through it.
• 17:42
  Dayna Roselli: A hundred bucks, get this.
• 17:43
  Dayna Roselli: That's for an individual ticket, but you're gonna get to drink tickets, complimentary midnight champagne, unlimited replenishment of a special event menu All night, and you can also play social darts with other guests within the property.
• 17:59
  Dayna Roselli: So it's like everyone you know, it's super fun.
• 18:01
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, for a hundred dollars, that's great.
• 18:03
  Sean McAllister: I think that's a great deal it is, it's, I mean you're especially if the food is gonna keep keep coming right, I mean when you think about what you would spend to go and sit down for dinner on New.
• 18:16
  Sean McAllister: Year's Eve.
• 18:16
  Sean McAllister: I mean a hundred bucks is a great deal it really is.
• 18:20
  Dayna Roselli: Again, it's at the Venetian, at the grand canal shops.
• 18:22
  Dayna Roselli: They are doing group packages to.
• 18:23
  Dayna Roselli: It's a little bit more expensive.
• 18:25
  Dayna Roselli: That was also a good deal, so Highly recommend the flight to club if you're looking for something to do on New Year's Eve.
• 18:32
  Sean McAllister: And here is another venue where you're going to have A very unique perspective on the New Year's Eve fireworks as they go off at midnight.
• 18:43
  Sean McAllister: We're talking about voodoo lounge, up on the fifty first floor of the Rio it may not get all the talk that it should.
• 18:51
  Dayna Roselli: People don't talk about it often, especially anymore, because people forget it's there.
• 18:55
  Dayna Roselli: I mean that.
• 18:55
  Dayna Roselli: That seems like that to me, and so we thought, oh yeah, the voodoo lounge.
• 18:59
  Dayna Roselli: When they offered this deal, we were like, well, like to be set off.
• 19:04
  Dayna Roselli: The strip is almost even better to see all the fireworks going off at once, so this could be a really good place To go watch those strip fireworks at midnight.
• 19:14
  Dayna Roselli: So it's on the fifty first floor of the Rio.
• 19:17
  Dayna Roselli: They're gonna be doing open bar and order starting at ten o'clock for one seventy five.
• 19:24
  Sean McAllister: Which is pretty good.
• 19:25
  Sean McAllister: And again, just like with social darts, they're gonna keep passing those hors d'oeuvres around to sell out.
• 19:32
  Sean McAllister: You know, get your fell.
• 19:34
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, get your fell, for sure it's an.
• 19:36
  Sean McAllister: There's open bar.
• 19:37
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's great.
• 19:38
  Dayna Roselli: The Rio's going through a whole redo and it's just east of the strip.
• 19:42
  Dayna Roselli: It has that outdoor patio with the panoramic view.
• 19:45
  Dayna Roselli: Like we said, there's an indoor outdoor.
• 19:47
  Dayna Roselli: So voodoo lounge at the Rio.
• 19:49
  Dayna Roselli: Look that up if you're looking for a place to hang out on New Year's Eve in Las Vegas Las Vegas style gosh.
• 19:57
  Sean McAllister: I haven't been up to voodoo in a long time.
• 19:59
  Sean McAllister: I think the last time I was there, yeah.
• 20:02
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I haven't either, but I think the last time was like a post Chippendales party or something.
• 20:06
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, probably.
• 20:06
  Sean McAllister: And, by the way, they do have voodoo steakhouse up at the top of the Rio as well.
• 20:11
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, I've never been there either, have you.
• 20:15
  Sean McAllister: Yeah yeah, I've eaten there a couple times.
• 20:17
  Sean McAllister: I thought it was great.
• 20:18
  Dayna Roselli: Good hey for a full list of New Year's Eve events.
• 20:21
  Dayna Roselli: We again have it on our website Vegas dash revealed Dot com.
• 20:25
  Dayna Roselli: So keep that in mind, hey.
• 20:27
  Dayna Roselli: Another quick note when I went to the fountain blue on my own recently, I got a vodka soda and it was $15.
• 20:33
  Dayna Roselli: I went to Komodo, yeah, and then also at Mother Wolf, and then I heard someone I think it was on social media posted their receipt from, like, the center bar.
• 20:43
  Dayna Roselli: So, like, vodka drinks are 15 bucks there and it's sad to say that's a deal, but for a strip resort that actually is a really good price anything under 20 bucks yeah.
• 20:53
  Dayna Roselli: I mean some of these in the espresso martinis were $17.
• 20:56
  Sean McAllister: Really.
• 20:57
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, they're usually like 22 plus right.
• 20:59
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah so I'm telling you that was another little thing I meant to mention earlier.
• 21:03
  Dayna Roselli: You know, if you want to go grab a cocktail at the fountain blue, it's not so bad compared to us, some other resorts.
• 21:09
  Sean McAllister: Interesting.
• 21:10
  Sean McAllister: I love that.
• 21:11
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, hey, before we let you go, we do want to remind you that Dana and I, in addition to being hosts of the Vegas revealed podcast, also own a media company called Insightful Media.
• 21:24
  Sean McAllister: So if you're looking for MCs for an event or on camera talent, media trading, video production, we do all of that under our Insightful Media Company umbrella.
• 21:39
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean that's that's like like that's a real job.
• 21:42
  Dayna Roselli: You know, and you know, recently we were talking to one of our subscribers, tracy, and she said you know you guys should talk about what you guys do more often.
• 21:50
  Dayna Roselli: We hear you talking about all the other sponsors, but you know, talk about Insightful Media.
• 21:54
  Dayna Roselli: And I thought you know what she is right.
• 21:56
  Dayna Roselli: We don't talk about what we do that often and that we're available because there are so many events around Las Vegas.
• 22:02
  Dayna Roselli: We love MCing, we love MCing together and kind of playing off each other.
• 22:06
  Dayna Roselli: Just an MC makes a huge difference at events to keep the energy up, to keep things moving, and so we love doing it.
• 22:15
  Dayna Roselli: Like Sean said again, we do on camera talent stuff.
• 22:18
  Dayna Roselli: So hit us up.
• 22:20
  Dayna Roselli: Insightful Media cocom is our website.
• 22:25
  Sean McAllister: And we would like to wish all of you a very happy and healthy new year.
• 22:29
  Sean McAllister: Happy Hanukkah, merry Christmas, happy Kwanzaa.
• 22:33
  Sean McAllister: Hit us up on social.
• 22:36
  Sean McAllister: We're always around.
• 22:37
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, even when we're not doing.
• 22:39
  Dayna Roselli: You know we may take a week break and let this go a little bit until episode 200 in the new year, but we're always available on social.
• 22:46
  Dayna Roselli: We'll be posting on there if you have a question, if you want to know something, if you're coming into town.
• 22:50
  Dayna Roselli: We love interacting with all of you.
• 22:52
  Dayna Roselli: Check out our YouTube channel.
• 22:53
  Dayna Roselli: We've been loading it up with tons of videos.
• 22:55
  Dayna Roselli: We have a special fountain blue opening show from the blue carpet that people are really enjoying.
• 23:01
  Dayna Roselli: It's well.
• 23:02
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's got thousands of views already and we notice that people around the world are really enjoying the coverage.
• 23:08
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so take a look.
• 23:09
  Sean McAllister: If you haven't, you know, ventured over to the Vegas revealed YouTube channel, please Check it out.
• 23:16
  Sean McAllister: We take, we put a lot of time into creating the content that we put up there, so we'd appreciate it if you'd go and and check it out and give some likes and leave some comments if you're so inclined.
• 23:28
  Dayna Roselli: I hope in 2024 that nobody creates a new or another social media channel.
• 23:35
  Dayna Roselli: There's too many there's too many listen and again, this is part of Shawn and I do all this on our own.
• 23:41
  Dayna Roselli: We don't actually have assistance or anything.
• 23:43
  Dayna Roselli: So when we have to post things, there are nights where I go Okay, I tweeted that, I put that on our tiktok and I made an Instagram reel and I'm like, oh, I need to put it in YouTube shorts.
• 23:52
  Dayna Roselli: Oh wait, now I have to put it on threads.
• 23:55
  Dayna Roselli: Oh darn LinkedIn.
• 23:57
  Dayna Roselli: Oh wait, I didn't post it to my Facebook.
• 23:59
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, I didn't post it to Vegas revealed Facebook.
• 24:01
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, shawn, can you share this?
• 24:02
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's out of control.
• 24:05
  Sean McAllister: It's a lot.
• 24:06
  Dayna Roselli: Please nobody.
• 24:07
  Dayna Roselli: Or maybe like we need some companies to combine there we go like we need like well, what's threads in Facebook and Instagram?
• 24:16
  Dayna Roselli: I guess are kind of together make it easier to cross post like tiktok and Twitter could merge.
• 24:21
  Dayna Roselli: That'll be nice.
• 24:23
  Sean McAllister: Hey, you know what the first start is putting it out into the universe.
• 24:27
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, you never know you never and you know if you have.
• 24:30
  Dayna Roselli: If you take us on and you take this on and we had the idea Feel free to throw some commission.
• 24:35
  Dayna Roselli: We could use a little extra cash in 2024.
• 24:38
  Dayna Roselli: Like as Shawn said, happy new year and everything.
• 24:42
  Dayna Roselli: We hope you enjoy, your families, your friends, you stay safe and we will see you in.
• 24:47
  Dayna Roselli: We will hear you, we will see you, we will talk to you in 2024 with lots more exciting stuff, we promise.